
Thankfully, there was just one take."Ĭlick inside to read what else Maria Schneider said in the interview.

After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologize. 'Bernardo Bertoluccis Last Tango in Paris was presented for the first time on the closing night of the New York Film Festival, October 14, 1972: That date should become a landmark in movie. "I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. " Marlon said to me: ' Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears," she added.
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I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that." In a recently surfaced video, Last Tango In Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci admits he and Marlon Brando thought up the infamous butter scene in the movie without actress Maria. Before MeToo and the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the notorious butter scene in Bertoluccis 1972 film Last Tango In Paris. "They only told me about it before we had to film the scene and I was so angry. It was a scene that scarred the life of a young actress and left a stain on the career of Bernardo Bertolucci, one of cinemas most talented directors, who died Monday of cancer aged 77. Reviewing 'Last Tango in Paris' in 1972, I wrote that it was one of the great emotional experiences of our time, adding: 'Its a movie that exists so resolutely on the level of emotion, indeed, that possibly only Marlon Brando, of all living actors, could have played its lead. The truth is it was Marlon who came up with the idea," Maria told the Daily Mail in 2007.


"That scene wasn't in the original script. The director of the film, Bernardo Bertolucci, admitted in a recently surfaced interview that Maria did not consent to the rape scene in the movie and he does not regret what he did. Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci admitted in a recently surfaced 2013 video that the infamous rape scene in the much-lauded 1972 film was not consensual, but it also wasn’t real. Maria Schneider, the late star of Last Tango in Paris, opened up nearly a decade ago about how she felt raped by co-star Marlon Brando and now her comments are making headlines again.
